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Statistics Student Support Fund Scholarship

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that four students have recently received scholarship funded by the Statistics Student Support Fund.

BDAL Recognized for Two Papers at STAI-X 2026 Conference at Harvard University

UGA Statistics would like to share some exciting news from the Big Data Analytics Lab. Two of their papers were recognized at the STAI-X 2026 Conference (Statistics and Trustworthy AI for Cross-Domain Acceleration), held at Harvard University on July 31–August 1:

Dr. Ting Zhang

Dr. Ting Zhang Appointed as Department Head

Congratulations to Dr. Ting Zhang on his appointment as Head of the UGA Department of Statistics, effective August 1, 2026.  
Dr. Yuan Ke

Dr. Yuan Ke Joins JASA Editorial Board

Dr. Yuan Ke has recently accepted a role as Associate Editor for the Theory and Methods section of Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA).
Dr. Ting Zhang

Dr. Ting Zhang receives NSF Award for Collaborative Research on Changepoint Analysis

Congratulations to Dr. Ting Zhang who was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the project entitled, Collaborative Research: Change Point Testing and Estimation with Irregular Signals.